Colorado Community Colleges Online

A student violates academic integrity by

• sharing login information
• submitting coursework completed by another
• receiving unauthorized assistance with coursework
• committing an act of plagiarism

Click each violation type below to reveal the definition.

Allowing anyone, even a sibling, spouse, or parent, to log-in as you and participate or otherwise communicate as you in a course under any circumstances.

In urgent circumstances, the home college or Student Services can contact your instructor external to the course.

The course syllabus includes external contact information for your instructor. Store the contact information offline for you and others to easily access in cases of urgency when you cannot access your course!

Using coursework created or otherwise completed by another, such as a service that writes a paper for you or sells you a paper. Having anyone complete your coursework or using another's coursework from a prior term or another course.

Since the above types of coursework are not produced by you, submitting them as your work is dishonest.

Cheating demonstrates a lack of respect for your college, your classmates, your instructor, and most of all, yourself and your education!

Communication by phone, text, chat or otherwise working with another during coursework UNLESS approved by the instructor in advance. Authorized assistance occurs with an acknowledgment in coursework of tutoring, study group collaboration, assistance from a librarian, or any other source.

Spontaneous sharing of ideas with others may influence your coursework. This is a natural and valuable part of your education. However, if substantially influential, inform your instructor of the collaboration to avoid possible misunderstandings about the originality of your work.

To plagiarize includes, but is not limited to: (a) copying, (b) writing, or (c) presenting another person’s or entity’s (a) information, (b) ideas, (c) graphics or (d) phrasing without properly acknowledging the true source via appropriate citation format. CCCOnline expects all student work to be (a) new (b) unique (c) original (d) created by the individual student for each discrete class as directed by the instructor. Please note that CCCOnline instructors may use TurnItIn or other plagiarism prevention/text matching services in conjunction with grading any student work. Additionally, plagiarism has been compared by scholars to stealing or counterfeiting, “fakes” true academic scholarship, and weakens the “economy” of higher education. Therefore, it is important that there be stringent consequences for plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.